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Undergraduate students from the University of Washington, University of Puerto Rico, and Queens College, New York gather for a last goodbye at the end of the UW-OOI-NSF cruise RR1713, Leg 1 of the Regional Cabled Array Operations and Maintenance Expedition.

Daniel Tran

A vew from a GoPro camera looking towards the fantail of the R/V Revelle near the end of the UW-OOI-NSF Regional Cabled Array. The ROV Jason has a novel holster on its front holding a Deep Profiler vehicle about to be installed on a Deep Profiler Mooring at the Oregon Offshore Site. This dive was the first to use this holster, designed by the Applied Physics Laboratory, which allows instrumented profilers to be recovered and reinstalled without recovering the entire mooring. Credit: University of Washington, V17.

University of Washington School of Oceanography undergraduate students, Katie Gonzalez and Willem Weertman document the Pythias Oasis dive. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V17.

Katie Gonzalez, Eve Hudson, Alex Andronikides, and Kelsy Cain (in junction box) help clean the LV01C junction box that had been tipped on its side (still fully operational, however) for a few years at the Oregon Offshore Site. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V17.

A large pod(s) of Pacific White-Sided Dolphins spent ~30 minutes frolicking adjacent to the R/V Revelle, ~60-70 km west of Newport, Oregon. Credit: S. Denny, University of Washington, V17.

Katie Gonzalez watches a large pod of Pacific White-sided Dolphins ~60-70 km west of Newport, Oregon. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V17.

A diverse suite of displays allow monitoring of ROV operations in the control van during the dive to the Pythias Oasis Site discovered by, then, University of Washington School of Oceanography undergraduate Brendan Philp. The central large display shows the "Gusher" site, ringing by orange anemones and adjacent clams. The Jason manipulator holds a temperature probe used to measure the warm fluids. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V17.

Students on Leg 1 of the UW-OOI-NSF Cabled Array VISIONS'17 cruise hunt for pyrosomes (fondly called sea pickles) onboard the R/V Revelle. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V17.

Kelsey Cain's normal-sized styrofoam coffee cups were taken to a depth of 2900 m (~9500 ft beneath the oceans' surface) at the Slope Base site. Credit: K. Cain, University of Washington, V17.

A small cluster of blue cilliates intermixed with limpets grow in a diffuse flow site on the the 2011 lava flow at the summit of Axial Seamount. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-980; V17.

A beautiful ropey, jumbled sheet flow covers the seafloor at ~1500 m beneath the oceans' surface at the summit of Axial Seamount. The lava was erupted in April 2011. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-980; V17.

Healthy tube worms grow along a venting fracture in the 2011 glassy lava flow at the summit of Axial Seamount. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-980; V17.

A dense colony of tube worms awash in warm diffusely venting fluids grow on the April 2011 lava flow at the summit of Axial Seamount. UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-980; V17.

A small cluster of healthy Ridgeia tube worms grow near Skadis' Cauldron, a highly active snowblower in 2011. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-980; V17.

A swarm of black cod circle the vehicle during recovery and installation of a junction box at 600 m water depth offshore of Newport. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-986; V17.

Undergraduate students Carlos Arcilia (right) from the University of Puerto Rico and Willem Weertman from the University of Washington help process CTD fluid samples. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V17.

Alex Andronikides from Queens College, New York helps clean a Shallow Profiler Mooring science pod that was installed off the Oregon coast in 2016. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V17.

A glass-coated sheet flow sample recovered on Jason Dive J2-980 from the April 2011 lava flow on Axial Seamount. Credit. Mitch Elend, University of Washington, V17.

The vibrant Neptunea nursery that was covered in bright yellow egg stalks topped with Neptunea snails is not longer active. Only casings and empty shells remain. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-981; V17.

The seep sites at Southern Hydrate Ridge are characterized by several meter-tall hummocks, the summits and sides of which are variably covered by white bacterial mats. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-981; V17.

Tubeworms with red plumes grow on the side of an odd basalt formation formed as part of a fossilized lava lake at the summit of Axial Seamount in 2011. Depth is ~1500 m. UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-980; V17.

A skylight in the April 2011 lava flows shows where lava had drained out in the subsurface, leaving a cavern. The front porch of the ROV Jason is in the foregound. UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-980; V17.

The ROV Jason looks into the remnants of where a lava pond once formed. Most of the roof has subsequently collaped. Water depthe here is ~ 1500 m. UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-980; V17.

A fossilized whirl in a lava lake that was active during the April 2011 eruption of Axial Seamount. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-980; V17.

During Jason Dive J2-980, the remnants of multiple lava lakes from the April 2011 eruption of Axial Seamount were encountered. The bathtub rings mark the progressive lowering of the "lake". Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-980; V17.

Students went out to see a green flash, which did not materialize. But, there was a beautiful sunset. Credit: Kelsy Cain, University of Washington, V17.